Improvement in artificial curls



1. GRAHAM.

Artificial Curls.

Patented March 11, 1873.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN GRAHAM, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

I IMPROVEMENT IN ARTIFICIAL CURLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 136,720, dated March 11,1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN GRAHAM of the city and. State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Artificial Uurls, of which the following is a specification:

Artificial curls have been made in pairs with a woven back uniting the two, so that they could be used as'a head-dress, and several imitation curls have been made united by a woven back, the material employed for the same being glazed thread. In artificial curls of this character the thread has formed helical coils running around and interwoven with the warps at the back, and hence it has been impossible to make single artificial curls that would not twist in consequence of the weight hanging upon the warps so that the woven back would be at some places exposed to view.

The object of this invention is to make single curls out of helices of thread woven in such.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is the curl at the back where the warps are introduced, and Fig. 2 is an elevation of the outer side of the curl.

The warps a a are of any desired number and lifted and depressed alternately by hand or otherwise. The coil of thread forming the helical curl is composed of the desired number of strands and is passed through between the warps and around a tube or other form that gives the proper size to the curl. Then the coil passes through the strands again after the shed has been changed. This is proceeded with until about three-eighths 'of an inch or half an inch has been laid up, then the coil is reversed as at i t after the shed otwarps has been changed and the laying up proceeded with as before; but the direction of the coil or helix is reversed for the purposes aforesaid, and at the I same time the warps are tied so that they cannot spread around the curl. This reversal in the direction of the coil is preferably at uni- JOHN GRAHAM. Witnesses:

Gate. '1. PINGKNEY, CHAS. B. SMITH. 

